Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ever goes to prison to serve his sentence.
even If it is confirmed by the higher court.
THERE seems to be an unprecedented
Eastern demand for California canned
goods, and the scarcity of labor on the
Pacific coast renders it impossible for the
canneries to fill all their orders. Prices
have advanced ten to fifteen per cent.
JESSE LARNE, son of John Larne, of
Trenton, N. j., who was-bitten by dog in
June last, was taken with convulsions on
the 18th, and after terrible sufferings, died
on the morning of the 20th
A sIIDING scale has been agreed upon by
the Pittsburgh cokers and Carnegie in
terests.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Grand
Army circles to have pensions paid
monthly instead of quarterly.
NOTHING has yet been heard of the miss
ing boat from the burned steamer City Of
Montreal.
The cost of the President of the United
States to the country, salary and "find-
ings," foots up $114, ,635 per annum.
HARRY T. Cook, aged about twenty-one,
and Charles T. Cook, his brother, some
years younger, were arrested in Washing
ton on the 21st, the elder for forgery and
the younger for collusion. They are sons
of the late Prof. Cook, of that city.
ANALYSES made by the Government
chemists at Washington show various and
extensive food authorizations, including
large use of salicylic acid.
L. M. TRUMBULL is under arrest at Den
ison, Tex. 1t is charged that he is Bry-
ant B. Crandall, who is supposed to have
died in 1885 in New York, after having his
life very heavily insured. Trumbull
claims it is case of mistaken identity.
AUGUST WAMBoLD, an old and we'll
known citizen of Davenport, Ia, drove to
the city cemetery with his wife, on the
20th, and when near the grave of their
daughter committed suicide by shooting
| himself.
BUFFALO BILL and party have engage
| ments in the principal European cities
| and other points embracing tour around
| the world, which will cover a period of
| three years.
| THE Supreme Court of Foresters, in ses-
| sion at Montreal, has resolved that bar
tenders, saloon keepers and hotel-keepers
! in whose houses intoxicants are sold, be
prescribed by the order.
SECRETARY WHITNEY visited Admiral
Luce on board the flagship Richmond at
Bar Harbor, Me-, on the Goth. The recep-
tion was entirely formal.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Bulgaria has paid
visit to Philippopolis, the capital of
Eastern Roumelia, and was received with
much enthusiasm by the people.
THE yacht Galatea won the Halifax IN.
81 jubilee cup on the Goth beating the
Stranger and Dauntless by mile and
half.
THE Duke of Marlborough sailed on the
steamship Umbria from Liverpool on the
Goth, bound for New FORK.
Two apprentices from the schoolship
New Hampshire, stationed at Newport, K.
L., escaped from that vessel in stolen cat
boat on the night of the Goth, and We're
wrecked on the rocks in front OF the hotel
at Narragansett Pier. One was severely
hurt They were arrested and sent back
to Newport.
THE English steamship Madrid which
sailed from Philadelphia May % for Lon
don via Bull river, South Carolina, where
she loaded cargo of phosphate rock, has
been given up for lost with all Oh board.
She was commanded by Captain Matthew
Carson, who had with him a crew OF
twenty-five men.
Two brothers named Newer were killed
at a picnic at Exeter, Neb., by some rail
road hands who were trying to steal keg
of beer.
HEAVY rains have fallen in Mexico and
portions of the capital city are Hooded.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will visit the
constitutional centennial at Philadelphia,
which begins September TO-
THE confession of Lipsk, the Jewish
murderer, has created great sensation in
London.
ADMIRAL PORTER does not belong to the
G.. A. R., but they are trying to initiate
him in time for the Grand Encampment.
THE address of British residents of Chi
cago was presented to Queen Victoria on
the 22d.
THE New York Court of Common Pleas
decided on the 22d that Henry 5. Ives
must show up the books of his suspended
firm.
LONDON Tory papers affect to see no seri-
Gus effects in the desertion OF Chamberlain
to the Gladstonian ranks.
MR.. BLAINE is drinking and bathing in
the waters at Hamburg, Germany, and
may remain at that place month or two.
A DELEGATION of tobacco-raisers called
on Commissioner Colman at Washington,
on the 22d, to protest against his statistl-
clans report.
THE Manitoba q feu hiVeT 'diloy idii-
road is pushing work despite the opposi-
tion of the Canadian Pacific, and the
enmity may terminate in bloodshed.
Hermann LUDWIG, accused OF forgery
in Germany, was arrested in New York
on the 22d He has been living at Pitts
burgh, Pa, since he came to this country
JOHN B. MOORE, one of the most proml-
nent pomologists and horticulturists of the
country, died at Concord, Mass, on the
22d, aged seventy.
P. E. TARPY, of New York City, has
been appointed superintendent OF the In
dian training school at Grand junction,
Col, vice w. J. Davis resigned.
AARON VANDERPoEL, the eminent New
York lawyer and jurist, died in Paris on
the 22d, of apoplexy, aged sixty years.
Mr.. Vanderpoel went abroad several
months ago for his health. The news OF
his death was received by cable.
YANK McCARTY, prominent citizen and
ex.sheriff of Hooking County, O., died on
the morning of the 22d from the effects OF
a dose of morphine taken with supposed
suicidal intent.
THE San Francisco call board opened on
-, saa f1,. tho fret time since the cOllaDSe